Quotes About Obstacles

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

The entire civil service is like a fortress, made of papers, forms and red tape.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

If I'm going to try to achieve something, regardless of how tough it might and the obstacles I face, I grit my teeth and go for it or I don't do it at all. It's about reaching the goals you've set with the opportunities you've been given.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it's not. It has got many turns and curves, and you just got to go with the ebbs and flows of it all.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.